Resilient wheel.



H. l. CHEW & w. s SERGEANT.

RESILIENT WHEEL.

' APPLICATION'FILED JUNE 29, 1914.

1,149,425. v Patented Aug. 10, 1915.

laws" tint Ad PATENT HARRY I. CHEW AND WALTER S. SERGEANT, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT GTE COLUMHIA, ASSIGNORS, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO HUB SHOCK ABSQREER WHEEL COMPANY, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, A OGRPOEATION DE PENNSYL VANIA.

RESILIENT WHEEL.

Application filed June 29, 1914.

T 0 all 107mm it may concern Be it known that. we, HARRY I. Cnnw and .VALTER SEIKGI-IAXT, citizens of the United State of America, residing at Vashington, District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements'in Resilient lVheels, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to resilient wheels for vehicles and consists in the combinations and arrangements of elements steering wheel of the vehicle which is of compact design and wholly self contained to the end of decreasing the over-all length of the front axle.

The invention further contemplates a' novel form of anti-friction supporting means for the cooperating resilient elements which will aiford the required stability to the wheel and at the same time allow com: plete ease of operation to the working parts.

The present disclosure constitutes an improvement over our invention disclosed in our copending application for United States Patent bearing the Serial No. 839,521 and dated May 18, 1914.

The invention is shown by way of illustration in the accom 'mnying drawings:

Figure 1 is a central sectional view of the hub. Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 22 of F1 g. 1 and looking in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 3 is a view similar- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. it), 1915.

Serial No. 848,018.

instance the hub consists of a. :asing comprising sections 30 and 31 having sleeves 32 and33 respectively that are mounted. on the axle 34. The connection between the hub sections 30 and 31 consists of bars :35 formed integral with the part 31 and secured to the part 32 in any suitable manner. The rim 36 of the wheel is cat-away, as at 37 to receive the several rigid connecting members 35. A sleeve 88 is mounted on the sleeves 32 and 33 and has at one end a cone head 39, and at its opposite end is fitted. with a nut 40. A second sleeve il is mounted to slide on the sleeve 38 and has a cone head 42 that cooperates with the head 39 to receive the relatively angular faces 43 of the wheel rim. The cushioning for the coaeting cone heads 39 and 42 consists of a single spring it that surrounds the sleeves 38 and ii and is in terposed between the nut 4-0 and cone head 42. In normal position said spring tends to hold the cone heads in resilient contact to the end of sustaining the wheel rim 36. It will therefore be seen that the resilient medium for the front wheel may be mounted wholly to one side of the wheel rim and that the hub elements provide a rigid sustaining structure.

In thearrangement shown in Figs. 3, 4- and 5 the parts are substantially the same as those disclosed in Figs. 1 and 2 excepting that in the former instance the axle 5 has squared or other polygonal design sleeve sections 46 and 4t? mounted thereon. A cage or frame 48' provided with a. plurality of rollers 49 is mounted on the sleeve sections 46 and 47 and provides antifriction bearings for the sleeve 50 of the cone head 39.. And a secondand similarly designed frame 51 having antifriction rollers 5:2 is mounted on said sleeve 50 and provides bearings for the sleeve 53 ofthe second cone head The two sleeves 50 and 53 are of the same design in cross-section as the axle 425 as will be understood.

It will be obvious of course that different forms of anti-friction bearing means ma y be provided in lieu of that disclosed and described herein. And while we have shown and described certainapparatus for :iccom plishing the result initially stated it is to he understood that we are not limited to the precise details shown but may on the other hand adopt such modifications or changes int f *1. In a resilent Wheel a hub rhaving rigidly connected side plates;

within the scope of the claims to better suit I the end inview.

. Having thus described our lnvention What we claim as newand desire to protect by- United States Patent is :1

- a resilient element comprising a pair of axially separable members associated with the hub and-having telescoping sleeves; and a' wheel rim portion entering between and floatingly mounted on said separable members, said side plates engaging with and laterally sustaining the rim portion in substantiallyradial valinement *ivith the axially separable members, substantially as .de-

scribed.

2. In a resilient Wheel the combination of a'hub having" rigidly connected sid e plates;

a resilient element comprising a pair of MH- ally separable members associated with the hub and having telescoping sleeves; and a wheel rim port1onenter1n'g between and floatingly mounted on sa dsepar'able members, said sideplates engaging with and laterally sustaining the rim portion at a a wheel rim portion fitting between the side plates; a resilient element radially sustainmg said run portion having telescoping sleeves located wholly on oneside of said rim portion, and said side plates engaging With and laterally sustaining the rim portion at a distance radially remote and in substantially radial alinement with the rim sustaining element, substantially as described.

5. In a resilient wheel the combination ot' a hub having rigidly connected side plates;

a Wheel rim portion fitting between ,the side plates a. resilient element radially sustaintopies of this patent maybe obtained for the combination of ing said rim portion having cone-heads en-- gaging the opposite outer faces of therim portions and having telescoping sleeves located Wholly on one side of said rim portion; and said side plates engaging with and laterally sustaining the rim portion in sub stantially radial alinement with. the cone heads, substantially as described.

- ,6. In a. resilient wheel the combination'of a hub having rigidly connected side plates; a relatively narrow wheelrim portion hav ing beveled edges fitting between the side plates and laterally sustainedthereby' and means radially sustaining the rim portion comprisingtelescoping sleeves having cone heads engaging said beveled edges; and. a re silient member forcing the cone. heads together, said sleeves and the reslllent mem- 1 her located wholly on'one' side of the rim portion substantially as described. v

7. In a resilient wheel the combination of a hub having rigidly connected side plates; a wheel rim portion having beveled edges fitting between the side plates and lat rally sustained thereby; and means radially sustaining the rim portion comprising telescoping sleeves having axially separable cone heads engaging the beveled edges, a" shoulder mounted on one of the sleeves and a resilient member seating against said shoulder and the cone head of the other sleeve and. v

acting to force said cone heads together, said sleeves and the resilient member "located wholly on one side of the rim port-ion snbstantially as described 8. The combination with an axle, oi a re silient wheel comprising a hub closely fitting! the axle and providing a chamber; a pair oi' cooperable cone heads located within said chamber and having telescoping sleeve portions of polygonal cross-section; av resilient device associated with said. cone heads; and

a wheel rim'fioatingly mounted onsaidecne a heads, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we ati'ir; our signatures in presence of two witnesses. HARRY I. CIIIIW. WALTER- S. SEILGEANT,

\Vitnesses:

JOHN M. Gnorr, IVM. R. on LAsI nUT'r.

five cents each, by addressing the 5 Commissioner of Patents. Washington; 1). C. 

